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Unit 3,Life in the future,教材背景链接,名言佳句,Future gains are uncertain.,未来的收获是不易确定的。,(,谚,),Fear not the future,；,weep not for the past.,不要为未来担忧，不要为过去悲泣。,(,谚,),The greatest source of misery and hatred in this world is clinging to past hurts.,这个世界上痛苦与仇恨最大的源泉是对过去伤痛的执迷。,Future World,再过二十年，我们的生活会变成什么样子呢？到那时，一些有趣的小装置，比如与互联网相连接的冰箱磁铁、环保型的氢动力车、与衣服颜色相搭配的办公椅、数字墨水笔等等都将会像今天的手机和,DVD,机一样随处可见。,类文欣赏,Its Friday morning in the year 2025,，,and youre running late.You got distracted(,思想不集中的,)watching the music video that was playing in the corner of your bathroom mirror while you were brushing your teeth.How will you get to your office at Mega Giga Industries on time?,A quick check of your Internet-connected refrigerator magnet(,冰箱磁铁,)tells you that your train which travels at speed up to 250 miles an hour is a bit behind schedule,，,too.So you decide to drive your environment-friendly hydrogen fuel cell car(,氢动力小汽车,)insteador rather,，,let your car drive you.Its programmed to know the way,，,and it will get you there without speeding,，,getting lost,，,or crashing.,Settling back in your office chair,，,which changes color to match what youre wearing,，,you pick up yesterday mornings newspaper.Printed on reusable electronic paper,，,it instantly rewrites itself with todays headlines.Now its time for you to have a meeting.Uh-oh,！,Youve left your handwritten notes at home.No problem.The digital ink pen,(,数字墨水笔,)you used has stored an electronic copy of what you wrote.,Your videophone suddenly rings.Your best friends face appears on the screen asking what you are doing this weekend.,“,Will you wear your 3-D contact lenses(,隐形眼镜,)and play soccer with the U,S.Olympic Soccer Team,？,”,Your friend asked.,“,No,，,no.,”,You answered,，,“,I will take the new type of elevator 60,000 miles into space.”,Could this scene really take place in just a couple of decades,？,The researchers who are developing all this stuff at the present time think so.These gadgets(,小装置,)may be as common in 20 years as cellphones and DVD players are today.,Choose the best words from the passage to fill in the blanks.,1,i,_,ad,v,.at once,；,immediately,2,s,_,v,to make yourself or sb.else comfortable in a new position,3,e,_,n,a machine that carries people or goods up and down to different levels in a building,Keys,：,1.instantly,2.settle,3.elevator,
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